This is extremely valuable.

I happen to be at the very beginning of my software engineering career, and I think I tried coffee only once in my life so far.

I do find myself both wanting to be in management with a greater ability to direct the company in the future and fearing the endless cycle of meetings whose productivity seems questionable to me.

I want to bring this article around to the senior people I work with so that they can realize they do this, too. The senior most engineer on my team, although an amazing engineer, is also constantly playing some irrelevant news video and vibrating around his office on a caffeine high.